I have resigned from general practice as a result of the interference by this Government in the running of the NHS and the care of patients – which for the first time since I had qualified in 1984 showed signs of improvement and progression as a result of Labour’s changes.

We do not have a real opportunity to influence or comment on potential QOF indicators at all.

Every clinician knows there are risks in providing care that must be minimised and managed.

I agree that no patient should be left without appropriate healthcare if companies involved with providing PIP implants close, but the manufacturers and the companies that did the surgery do need to...

‘Read the original article: Software provider defies Department of Health over ‘Tea at the Ritz’ and M&S voucher incentives for GPs’

Read the original article: Software provider defies Department of Health over ‘Tea at the Ritz’ and M&S voucher incentives for GPs

The influence the newspapers are having on GP morale should not be underestimated .

I am one of the forty-somethings who have been in this job long enough to have laid down roots, but not long enough to avoid having my pension promises shattered.

Meet Dee Haich, CeCea Gee and RahShia N’ing, the elephants crowded into Dr Martin Allen's consulting room, in this runner-up from our Soapbox competition

If my research for Panorama is anything to go by, GPs will be seeing more not less of patients because of drink, and as these other services come under pressure, the GP’s share of the frontline will grow.

The Government’s pension offer is fair and the BMA must step back from the brink on industrial action, writes health minister Simon Burns

GP locums are not responsible for, let alone easily involved in, governance at the practices they serve, Dr Fieldhouse argues, and revalidation should protect patients rather than embroiling doctors who have opted not to work as principals into complex governance issues outside their control.

Dr David Bush wonders whether he can be right in thinking the new pension arrangements will ask GPs to work longer and to contribute more

Giving patients online access to records will bring the NHS real benefits, writes Dr Brian Fisher

See a cartoon by Robert D. Dangoor about private versus NHS GPs.